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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 11/07/2013 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
Early-Stage Education $50 Million Education-Focused Venture Fund River Grove, IL (USA), July 2013 - Follett Corporation has announced the establishment of the Follett Knowledge Fund, a capital-funding source for new technologies that have the potential to improve and even disrupt the way educational content is delivered and consumed. Follett has committed $50 million to the fund, which complements and extends the company's extensive portfolio of digital solutions and tools. » more Helpful Tool Into the Summer: The New Moodle GPS Course Format Heidelberg (GER), July 2013 - On time for the summer season, Moodle users can now utilize location-based learning. The newly developed “kamedia GPS Format Free“ allows eLearning content to be displayed according to the geo-coordinates of the learner. This enables location-based mobile learning. » more UserTesting.com The Four most Common Mistakes Made by Mobile Apps Mountain View, CA (USA), July 2013 - The transition to mobile is a bigger challenge than most companies realize. Many mistakenly apply the same design and business practices they learned in the desktop computing world to their mobile apps and sites. As a result, they frequently waste large amounts of time and money as they struggle to succeed in mobile. » more Reviewed by Users neuTrain Launches Innovative Content-Sharing Platform London (UK), July 2013 - Backed by industry experts, neutrain is a not-for-profit community of professionals who share their training materials on line. Their aim is to increase the efficiency of the training world by reducing the reproduction of materials and to increase accessibility to training content by removing cost. Now neuTrain has announced the launch of an innovative online platform where training professionals worldwide share courses, presentations, and other learning materials. New for the learning industry: materials are reviewed by users, following the YouTube model, offering contributors a wide audience of content feedback. » more Mobile Learning NetSupport School’s New Android Tablet Support Peterborough (UK), July 2013 - Education software specialist NetSupport is delighted to announce the latest update to its leading classroom-management and instruction tool, NetSupport School (v 11.30), introducing support for Android tablets. The NetSupport School Student for Android gives teachers the power to interact with students’ tablets from their desktop, delivering engaging real-time instruction and support within the flexibility of a mobile environment. » more Advertisement New Research Oxford University Has Poorest Online Presence in UK London (UK), July 2013 - Oxford University has the poorest online presence in the UK, according to new research carried out by user-experience agency Webcredible. The prestigious university scored lowest in the in-depth analysis of ten UK universities, which were evaluated against best practice guidelines to gauge how easy it is for prospective students to find the resources they need on official websites. Cardiff University topped the table with the best online experience. » more Rollout Jurys Inn’s learners continue to "Grow" with Totara London (UK), July 2013 - Jurys Inn is a hotel chain with over 1,900 employees working in a busy 24/7 environment in 35 locations across the UK and Ireland. With a growing distributed workforce comprising a young demographic, comprehensive and engaging learning was key to success. The rollout of Totara LMS across the organisation has had a dramatic impact: reduced payroll costs associated with learning and 1,840 users successfully trained through a blended program. » more Immersive Environment Simulation-Based Training from Raytheon and MSC Dallas, TX (USA), July 2013 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has announced that Simulation-Based Training - its solution developed jointly with Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) - has earned the exclusive endorsement of the American Hospital Association (AHA). Simulation-Based Training will be available to the AHA's member hospitals and care organizations. » more Perfect Blend Speexx Wins the Prestigious 2013 IELA Award Munich (GER), July 2013 – Speexx, a global provider of online corporate communication-skills training, has been awarded the 2013 IELA Award for the "Blended Learning" category. The award ceremony took place in June at the ICELW Conference in New York. » more Easier and More Secure Questionmark LTI Connector Enables Integration Norwalk, CT (USA), July 2013 – Integration between the Questionmark® OnDemand assessment-management system and a wide range of learning-management systems is now easier and more secure thanks to the new LTI Connector for Questionmark OnDemand. With the connector, instructors and administrators who use Questionmark OnDemand to create, deliver, and report on quizzes, tests, exams, and surveys can use an LTI-compliant learning-management system to make these assessments available to their students. » more Advertisement Growth across Europe KPN Leverages Saba to Improve Competitiveness Bracknell (UK), July 2013 – Saba, the provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, working with cloud partner Bloomville, has announced that KPN, a Dutch telecommunications and internet and communications technology (ICT) service provider, is leveraging the Saba Unified Learning Management Suite to standardise and optimise the training and development of its workforce. » more Good Practices Personal Learning Environment for Doctoral Students Barcelona (E), July 2013 - The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is leading an international project that includes Kenya’s Kenyatta University (KU) and the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP). The goal is to improve doctoral programs through the use of digital technologies, focusing especially on the supervision of doctoral students and the visibility of research and researchers. » more Advertisement eLearning Africa Report OERs and MOOCs: Old Wine in New Skins? Berlin (GER), July 2013 - Neil Butcher is Director at Neil Butcher and Associates and OER Strategist at OER Africa, an Initiative of the Southern African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE). As an expert in OERs, and believer in the power of MOOCs to change education for the better, he is nevertheless worried about the direction in which these open online resources are being taken. In the following, he outlines his fear that new technologies are simply - and unimaginatively - being used to replicate existing educational systems and gives his own vision of the revolutionary effect MOOCs and OERs could have on learning in the future. » more UOC’s eLearn Event Current Analyses of the Potential of eLearning Barcelona (E), July 2013 - How can teachers born before the explosion of ICT adapt to new generations of digital natives? What is the best way to educate in a world where all knowledge can be just a click away? Are open courses a good tool for education? These are some of the key questions that concern the community of educators and experts in eLearning all over the world. To provide answers, the eLearn Center of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) organized a seminar entitled eLearning Around the World: Achievements, Challenges and Broken Promises. The event featured the participation of leading specialists. » more Free Webinar Series Just in Time - the New Systems Learning Paradigm London (UK), July 2013 - Deploying, upgrading and optimising enterprise software systems like ERP and CRM is a continuous challenge for all large organisations. Rapid and effective user training and support is crucial for success. TTS Knowledge Solutions Ltd are launching a free webinar series which explores how performance support technologies can reduce training effort and cost whilst improving user adoption. » more Open Call Submit Your Innovation until 30 July Brussels (BE), July 2013 - The Open Call for eLearning innovators aims at spotting "innovations" that deal with concrete technology-enhanced learning activities. These can be ideas, research results, teaching practices, and any other innovation that deals with using ICT for education at large. The most interesting innovations will be validated and eventually tested within three virtual laboratories (learning exploratorium labs) in the fields of higher education, corporate learning, and informal learning through professional networks that the HoTEL project, with the support of FP7, has set up. » more Webinar 7 Ways to Leverage Video Corporate Communications Madison, WI (USA), July 2013 - There was a time when the Information Systems and Global Solutions (IS&GS) team at Lockheed Martin had a list of communication challenges they needed to address: convey unified messages, deliver training, build stronger teams, boost efficiency, and facilitate personal executive-employee communication. » more AfricanBrains "Innovation Africa 2013" in Gaborone, Botswana London (UK), July 2013 - AfricanBrains – part of The Brains Network – has announced "Innovation Africa 2013", taking place 15-17 October in Gaborone, Botswana. It is organised under the patronage of the Botswana Ministry of Education & Skills Development and continues The Brains Network’s highly productive series of meetings-based summits with an unmatched track record in bringing government ministers and officials to join industry leaders in one-to-one meetings. » more Interesting Topics Learning Solutions 2014 Speakers Call Orlando, FL (USA), July 2013 - The organizers of Learning Solutions 2014 are accepting speaking proposals until 19 July 2013. The Learning Solutions Conference and Expo focuses on practical solutions presented by experts who design, develop, or manage learning in their organizations. » more Going Global 2014 Inclusion, Innovation, Impact London (UK), July 2013 - Going Global 2014, which takes place 29 April - 01 May in Miami Beach, FL, USA, will explore how innovation systems are formed, structured, and driven globally and transnationally. Delegates will consider how talent to drive innovation is developed and how countries meet the challenge of providing sufficient high-quality tertiary education to ensure the widespread inclusion and participation of their citizens. » more

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